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Note:<\/strong> This week we asked a few of our favorite Chiron specialists for their thoughts on the Aries New Moon with retrograde Mars opposite Chiron. We quoted Dale O’Brien in Thursday’s Daily Astrology; here is the reply from Melanie Reinhart. We are still in New Moon territory today. — amanda<\/em> <\/p>\n

By Melanie Reinhart<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m a Gemini, so I love puns!\u00a0 So here is one \u2026 the \u2018march\u2019 of time, the \u2018march\u2019 that soldiers do. So what kind of march is this Mars-Chiron Warrior doing? Read on \u2026 This is truly a piece of LIVE ASTROLOGY.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s New Moon in early Aries is accompanied by an exact opposition of Mars in Virgo, still Retrograde, and Chiron in Pisces. When I opened Eric\u2019s Email mentioning this, and inviting me to contribute some thoughts, \u00a0I was right in the midst of writing about this very aspect for Graeme Munro-Hall, whose chart is below. I took that as a sign, contacted Graeme and asked permission to use his chart and to share with you the very notes I was writing for him. He kindly agreed.<\/p>\n

Firstly, a look at the New Moon chart. Mars rules the sign of Aries, and therefore also rules all four Aries planets which are closely conjunct at the forthcoming New Moon. In addition, Mars is in the sign of Virgo, ruled by Mercury, also in Aries. In other words, they are in each other\u2019s signs. This is called \u2018mutual reception\u2019 and it functions as a very strong link between two planets, who behave as if joined by a rubber band, always connected and ramping up each other\u2019s energy, but never stuck together. Here\u2019s the New Moon chart, set for Bedford, the nearest town to where Graeme lives, in the UK. This New Moon occurs at 14.37 GMT here.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So Mars the Warrior, and Mercury the communicator are mutually receiving one other. And here I am, fired up (Mars) and writing (Mercury) \u2026about matters affecting a healer (Chiron).<\/p>\n

We can see the strong signature of Chiron, acting like an anchor for the powerful Mars energy. Vitality, will, intention, choice and energy used in the service of healing (Chiron in Pisces).<\/p>\n

Mars turned Retrograde on January 24th, and will turn direct again on April 15th. That week will be one of enormous significance for Graeme. He is one of the very few truly holistic dental practitioners in the UK, whose work has included taking a stand against the use of amalgam fillings, and other commonly accepted dental practices which impact negatively on people\u2019s health. He has also created an extremely effective de-tox routine to help people heal from Mercury which has leaked into their body from their fillings. You can see the signature of this in his chart below: the Uranus-Orcus-Sun conjunction \u2013 the innovator. Also his Chiron in Scorpio in the 4th house \u2013 many people who attend his clinic are given a new lease of life, after having given up hope of being well again.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The General Dental Council (GDC) are the professional body in the UK who represent dentists, and they will be presiding over a \u2018case\u2019 against Graeme, due to last from April 11th \u2013 20th, right over the station of Mars. The GDC does not take kindly to anyone who challenges the very basis of what they do, and Graeme is not the only \u2018alternative\u2019 dentist who has been busted in this country. Any pretext will do, and previous hearings I attended were truly like the proverbial Mad Hatter\u2019s Tea Party. Graeme recently published a daring and ground-breaking book called \u2018Toxic Dentistry Exposed\u2019, and we have all known that the GDC would find a \u2018reason\u2019 to try and nail him. And this is happening now.<\/p>\n

However, the quiet, diligent and skilled Warrior (Mars Retrograde in Virgo) is currently sheltering with Chiron, whose energy protects and informs him. This is Mars the shaman, dedicated to the ways of the earth and its healing rhythms.<\/p>\n

It is also a good description of Graeme himself, whose Mars is in earthy Taurus, in the house of profession. He is preparing for a battle which will take place in the week that Mars turns Direct. Note that the New Moon in Aries occurs in Graeme\u2019s 9th house (of judicial matters), bringing this powerful energy into just the right place.<\/p>\n

All this takes place with Chiron conjunt Neptune, in Pisces, so involving themes that are \u2018bigger than personal\u2019. It is not just Graeme\u2019s professional life which is at stake. This conjunction is squaring his own Nodal Axis, so \u2018Fate\u2019 is at work, making him an important player in a collective drama. Chiron-Neptune signals that it is time to wake up from the illusions (Neptune) spun by the so-called \u2018Health System\u2019 which is run on the basis of commercial vested interests, and has very little to do with health in the deeper sense. It is perhaps the \u2018Ill-Health System\u2019. Chiron supports the holistic ways of healing, where body, mind and soul are seen as One, reflecting the Great Mystery of life itself.<\/p>\n

Positively,Chiron-Neptune refers to the healing of illusions about health. Negatively in \u2018the world\u2019, what we also see is the current undermining (Neptune) of those who function as healers (Chiron) in the true sense.<\/p>\n

There has been increasing persecution of alternative health practitioners in the UK, EU and USA; products which support health, like nutritional supplements, herbs and vitamins have also been targeted. The Codex Alimenatarius <\/em>is becoming enshrined in law, while herbalists, chiropractors, homeopaths and others are being slowly strangled with red tape and other tactics.<\/p>\n

This Warrior of Healing (Mars-Chiron) is perhaps saying that it is time to make a stand, wherever and however possible \u2013 a stand for that which supports our health, and the courage to turn away from that which doesn\u2019t. No time to waste fighting AGAINST anything. Never mind what \u2018they\u2019 do or don\u2019t do. Mars Retrograde helps us to go within, and discern what it is that is worth fighting FOR.<\/p>\n

Here are the notes I was writing when Eric\u2019s Email came through. I was looking to the astrology to help with a \u2018strategy\u2019 to give Graeme some celestial help for the April hearing. I had been explaining the meaning of Chiron-Neptune opposite Mars.<\/p>\n

Implications of this configuration:<\/p>\n